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Anonymous Sat Mar 12 05:58:26 2011 No.2686181 [Reply] [Original]

What's the absolute worst-case scenario of a nuclear reactor core exploding?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 05:59:26 2011 No.2686185 Global saturation, billions dead, biosphere collapse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:00:26 2011 No.2686191 worst case is a chain reaction

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:01:26 2011 No.2686197 File: 51 KB, 301x290, And-not-a-single-fuck-was-given-that-day.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 4chan going down if power fails in NYC

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:01:26 2011 No.2686199 >>2686194 so you're saying I'm gonna sleep through the whole day? sweeeet

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:01:26 2011 No.2686194 You don't wake up tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:03:26 2011 No.2686212 >>2686199 no you'll wake up dead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:04:26 2011 No.2686213 Fuck yeah fallout IRL edition

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:04:26 2011 No.2686216 Free cancer for everybody!

fizx !d75etXAowg Sat Mar 12 06:08:26 2011 No.2686238

>>2686181
Core reaches super-criticality for an extended period of time, melting the surrounding containment. The core then begins to liquefy everything around it and fall deeper and deeper into the Earth. The entire region becomes a radioactive wasteland. Air currents spread radioactive material across the globe, noticeably increasing cancer rates. Radioactive oceanic dead zones float around the Pacific Ocean for years and years. Fears of mercury in fish become secondary to radioactivity.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:11:26 2011 No.2686252 File: 18 KB, 334x324, Ogle.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686238 DO WANT

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:12:26 2011 No.2686257 >>2686238 > nuclear reactor > super-critical Nope.

>>	fizx !d75etXAowg Sat Mar 12 06:14:26 2011 No.2686271 File: 44 KB, 500x375, u_mad_lol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2686257 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Syndrome

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:19:26 2011 No.2686292 What "explodes" anyway? Does it mean pressure from evaporated water originally used for power production or what?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:23:26 2011 No.2686304 >>2686271 Radioactive lava and underground waters? I suppose it's time to go rob a bank, build a spaceship and hope I can find a place to live somewhere except this shithole called Earth

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:27:26 2011 No.2686316 Worst case scenario is chernobyl. Its already happened and we all lived through it. theres always the possibility of the same thing happening with a larger reactor but reactors are built in a safer way these days.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:36:26 2011 No.2686347 >>2686212 Nigga, how do you wake up dead? I

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:41:26 2011 No.2686360 >>2686347 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGey-AwvDhc&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 06:42:26 2011 No.2686364 >>2686316 >chernobyl >worst case scenario not quite. Chernobyl itself could have been a hell of a lot worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 07:10:26 2011 No.2686488 >>2686364 it could have been in america?

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 07:16:26 2011 No.2686505

>>2686488

No.

Had a team of divers not sacrificed themselves to drain the water under the reactor, the fuel would have fallen into it and been blown high into the atmosphere from the resulting explosion.

The contamination that got scattered across Europe was tiny and localized compared to what could have happened.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 07:29:26 2011 No.2686534 >>2686505 Even if you dilute and disperse all the radioactive material in a core not many people would die as a result.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 07:45:26 2011 No.2686581 >>2686534 maybe not immediately, but the radioactive material will not just go away, it'll keep causing cancer for quite a while until you have to put out warning signs on graveyards with all the stuff buried with the corpses

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 07:59:26 2011 No.2686634 >>2686534 Those that die would be the lucky ones.

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 08:18:26 2011 No.2686698

The reactor is much more modern than the reactor at Chernobyl, and is being operated by people who know what they're doing. Although, the reactor is actually 40 years old, and was one of 20 reactors of a similar type that were due for decommissioning over the next few years. Bad timing, I guess.

The reactors built in their place are/will be even more safe.

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 08:39:26 2011 No.2686771

The surrounding town will be dosed in radiation, killing a few hundred people from radiation sickness, their deaths will be brodcasted cross the nation. After, radioactive dust will spread throughout the surrounding areas, causing a1-3% rise in cancer, the 20% of people getting cancer naturaly will blame it on the reactor.

Or by some magical chain of events it could go superthermal, wiping out half of Japan in a radioactive fireball, then procide to spew up billions of tons of radiation, purging the world into darkness.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:01:26 2011 No.2687438 >>2686212 >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead >wake up dead

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:09:26 2011 No.2687478 Worst-case scenario? All reactors simultaneously impacted by asteroids. Actually, just the asteroids would be most of the problem.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:11:26 2011 No.2687486 File: 7 KB, 232x217, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ever played fallout?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:11:26 2011 No.2687487 >>2686238 cancer rats bite people and become zombies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:15:26 2011 No.2687513 Worst case is, nuclear energy will be banned because of this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:15:26 2011 No.2687514 Chernobyl was the worst case...

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:16:26 2011 No.2687515 >>2687486 He said worst case scenario.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:17:26 2011 No.2687518 >>2687513 >Implying that isn't best case coal is way better

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:18:26 2011 No.2687530 The worst thing it can do is destroy confidence in nuclear power, leaving us burning fossil fuels and causing a rise in gasoline prices that makes everything prohibitively expensive. Honestly, that's going to be the worst consequence.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:19:26 2011 No.2687535 >>2687513 France announced they're phasing out nuclear because of this. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-france-nuclear-idUSTRE72B2JJ20110312

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:22:26 2011 No.2687554 File: 7 KB, 194x259, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] No, you're wrong... I think zombies are far worse than gas prices... Who's with me?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:22:26 2011 No.2687556 >>2687530 yea blanketing alaska down to tijuana and phoenix with 700 RADS is not nearly as bad as continuing to burn gasoline...oh god, whatever will we do with out nuclear power?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:23:26 2011 No.2687559 >>2687556 0/10

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:24:26 2011 No.2687566 >>2687535 Uh no. Your summary headline is worse than Slashdot articles.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:25:26 2011 No.2687571 >>2687535 From the article: >French green groups renewed a call on Saturday for France to end its dependence on nuclear power From your post: >France announced they're phasing out nuclear because of this.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:27:26 2011 No.2687588 >>2687566 >>2687571 Not very experienced at reporting stuff, uh? You are supposed to distort the wording of stuff to make everything seem worse.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:28:26 2011 No.2687589 File: 14 KB, 400x333, 400px-Electricity_in_France.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2687535 >France >phasing out nuclear haha no

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 12:58:26 2011 No.2687732 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#International_spread_of_radioactivity

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 13:09:26 2011 No.2687803 Coal causes more deaths every year than all nuclear accidents combined and releases a fairly large amount of radiation from radioactive elements trapped in coal.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 13:10:26 2011 No.2687810 >>2687803 Yeah, this.

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 13:14:26 2011 No.2687843

>>2687535
That's not the French government. That's the "Greens". A bunch of hippies who have no idea about how nuclear power works.

Hell, most respectable (Kindof) environmental organizations actually support nuclear energy.

If the anti-nuclear would bother to educate themselves about nuclear power, then they would be as moronic as they are now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 13:18:26 2011 No.2687863 >>2686181 The ABSOLUTE worst case? The universe dies, because something hit something hit >>> that causes the universe to collapse instead of expand or reach equilibrium. But that's pretty unlikely.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 13:19:26 2011 No.2687866 >>2687843 >Then they wouldn't be as moronic as they are now Fix'd

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 14:56:26 2011 No.2688391 >>2687803 >>2687810 Holy shit have you been brainwashed by corporations or what

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:04:26 2011 No.2688451 >>2688391 I fail to see how someone could be mentally incapable and unforgivably immoral that they support coal over nuclear. Unless you consider dangerous pollution and high level greenhouse gas emissions a good thing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:07:26 2011 No.2688478 >>2688451 I don't support either one

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:08:26 2011 No.2688482 >>2688451 easy. any sane person would unless they are paid by pro nuke marketing agencies to lobby on the internet for nuke support. that was an easy one. how about who could support my dick in your ass?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:10:26 2011 No.2688498 >>2688482 0/10

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 15:17:26 2011 No.2688552 >>2687554 zombies i can kill but rising gas prices, thats an evil that cant be defeated

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 20:59:26 2011 No.2690692

>>2688391
Exactly what corporations are against coal? And anyway, that's right. Coal mining alone kills hundreds every year, most of then in China. Coal air pollution kills at least 10 or 20 thousand, and reduces life expectancy and quality significantly.

TL;DR Global picture, bro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:03:26 2011 No.2690709 >>2686238 um you forgot to add that if a reactor did ever hay wire it will burn right to the center of the earth

Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:08:26 2011 No.2690742

obviously nobody here has read world war z. Flee to cuba. Depending on the type of zombies create a strategy. If they are slow movers your set, get large poles and attach a blade to the end. Proceed with a group of people to start poking zombie brain. If they are fast movers.... this might be difficult.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 12 21:15:26 2011 No.2690790 >>2687513 Why you mad though?

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